Tag: gaining access to the CEO

It seems absurd. A waste of time. An undermining of your authority as the CEO, the Chief Executive Officer.

Why block out an hour a week to meet privately –face-to-face–with ANYONE in your company? For up to 7 minutes. On any issue. At their request.

How can those open-ended, shot in-the-dark meetings with any employee — not your direct reports – be worthwhile?

Consider positioning these meetings as 7- minute Creative Business Building Discussions with you. Topics could range from new product ideas to new market initiatives and yes even to highly emotional personnel issues affecting the selection, grooming and growing of future leaders.

Sure you’d be opening your Open Door Policy so wide the complainers and disgruntled will likely game the system at first.

But the most effective leaders know that in opening themselves up so widely they also open the company up to new ideas that could generate new revenue streams for you to initially navigate. Continue reading “Opening Up Your Open Door”→